Vancouver Community College * Volume 1, Number 30- November 23,1993

Administrative
restructuring

A plan for the administrative restructur¬
veiled next week.

next week

VCC Planning Tearn members Friday ap¬
peared to clear some of the scepticism which has

Following a weekend College Board re¬

pian expected

Planners get on with job

ing of VCC and Langara will probably be un¬

treat, President John Cruickshank told the Ex¬

slowed their progress to this point and got down
to the nuts and bolts planning of the Futures

change that he had outlined to Board members a

Conference to be held in January.

process for restructuring the administration of
services in the College and that he "made a
commitment to communicate these plans with

all College employees" following the November

Here are the highlights of what was a wide
ranging discussion:

25 Board meeting. If all goes as planned, a report

* John Cruickshank told the group that the
strict legal deadline requirements of an April 1

will be issued on November 29.

separation date mean that some decisions—par¬

He hinted that the Fifth Floor's "central¬
ized services" as we have know them will change
to Administrative Services for Langara College
and Administrative Services for VCC. He said
that this should not be interpreted as a loss of
jobs, adding that "right now we have more jobs

to be filled than we have people to fill them."

ticularly those relating to shared/contracted
services—will have to be made outside of the
current planning activity. However, he guaran¬

teed that the planning activity has the full sup¬
port of administration and the Board and that the
mission, vision and values statements which come
out of the Futures Conference in mid January
will "build the heart and soul of our new institu¬

At least two other points came out of the

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tion." He also said that all of the interim deci¬
sions regarding shared/contracted services will

* The Board is considering a governance

be open to review after April 1, should they be

model named after management consultant John

m conflict with the Planning Team recommen¬

Carver which directs Board members to devote

dations.

themselves to "outcomes" rather than the proc¬

Cruickshank added that students and em¬

ess which is used to achieve them. This implies

ployees "will not be able to perceive one ounce

more orientation toward goals and objectives;

of difference before and after separation" m the

less 'hands on' work from the Board. This also

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day-to-day operation of the shared service areas,

will be discussed at Thursday's Board meeting.

such as the libraries just to name one.

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* The Board examined its own perform¬

* The Planning Tearn will finalize in its

ance after surveying all of the College's constitu¬

next meeting on December 3 the exact number

after

ent groups and conducting a self examination. It

of representatives to the Futures Conference)

was reported that the Board was "generally

but it was decided that representatives will come

2:30 pm

pleased" with its performance and that a proper

from each of the constituency groups which

letter grade would be "about a B".

were identified by representation on the Plan¬
ning Tearn itself.

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* Planning Team members decided to
continue to have the Exchange report on their

relatively recent developments at City Centre,
the vending machine operation and catering.

meetings, as one person put it, "warts and all."
However, it was also decided by a vote ofnine to

seven that individual members would be quoted
by name only after the Exchange sought their
approval.

Ministry to shift funding priorities?

Said Ehlert: "We used to make zero on the
vending machines and now we're making

$25,000 a year. And catering is now bringing in
even more revenue. We're prepared to take a

look at any food service project that makes
money."

The Second Cup idea grew out of the call
It appears that the new VCC may now
have friends in high places.

saving ideas.

John Cruickshankpredicted on Friday that
the new Minister of the Skills, Training and

Here's how funds distributed

to employees last spring to come up with cost-

Labour Ministry, Dan Miller, and Deputy Min¬
ister Gary Wouters are very supportive of voca¬
tional and other job training programs.

"I think it's taken the NDP two years to
begin putting its mark on priorities for advanced
education," said Cruickshank. "But that mark is
now becommg clear and I think that over the
next three to four months we will see that the
business VCC is in will be in a very favoured

position in Victoria I think the larger flow of

Last week's Exchange message on the
$86,000 success of the Educational Foundation's

Truck Lottery brought questions about how the
proceeds of this type of event are distributed.
This year about $20,000 of the funds will
go to Langara to complete an original commit¬
ment to that campus; the balance to the KEC
diesel program. Of course, some people are
asking why none of it went to City Centre.

The long-term goal for distributing funds

funds will shift from academic to vocational and
skills programs."

is to have an equal sharing among the campuses.
On an annual basis the process begins with a

Asa member of a four-person executive of

the Council of Presidents, Cruickshank has been
in weekly planning and policy meetings with the
Ministry.

Cappuccino bar opens
The college is about to cash in on the
popularity of cappuccino.

If you have any com¬
ments or questions,
please send them to
Chuck Poulsen, Man¬

year in April. Decisions on prioritizing needs-and this is the pivotal part--are made by the
Foundation Board on the basis of requests, docu¬
mentation and presentations made by the cam¬
puses.

The truck lottery proceeds are a bit differ¬

Monday marked the official opening of

ent from other fund raising endeavours because

cated right across from the security office in the

a large number of tickets are purchased by those
in the trucking industry with the expectation

main concourse.

that at least some of the money will go toward

Second Cup is a franchise operation which
Jackie Ehlert, Director of Food Services at City

ager of The Exchange,

Centre, successfully brought into the Mount
Sinai Hospital in Ontario, where she worked

Administrative Serv¬

before coming to VCC.
The Second Cup operation is expected to
earn a profit for the College as do two other

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is made at the beginning of each College fiscal

City Centre's Second Cup Cappuccino bar, lo¬

in care of College
ices.

needs assessment by the Foundation Board which

the trades programs. But even with that consid¬
ered, a portion of next year's funds will prob¬

ably go to City Centre because of its omission
from Truck Lottery proceeds this year.
--Sheilah Grant

Foundation President